CEO Arts Council England. Creating happier lives through public investment in arts, museums and libraries. Also a Positive Psychologist and Certified Coach.
Thank you
@OliverDowden
@RishiSunak
@DCMS
@hmtreasury
for this really significant new £1.57 billion investment in arts and culture. The team at
@ace_national
are looking forward to working with you on delivering the next steps to support creativity across England.
ARTS NEWS
🎭A £1.57 BILLION emergency support package
🩰 Weeks in the making to make this world leading fund to help the arts weather the storm of Covid
🎶 I said I wouldn’t let the arts down.
Culture and the arts matter, and this Govt backs you
@RishiSunak
@ace_national
What are the arts for? Why do we encourage creativity? Why do we teach children to play, to perform, to paint? I argue that a creative education is the greatest gift we can give our next generation in a new article I’ve written for
@tes
here:
Very happy today to confirm that all of our
@ace_national
National Portfolio Organisations across England will receive a 1.84% increase in their Arts Council investment for the year 2020-21 thanks to confirmation of our funding settlement for the next financial year from
@DCMS
The
@ace_national
team cares very deeply about the people & organisations who work in the arts, museums & libraries across England. We’ve worked very hard to put together this £160 million
#covid19
emergency response package. We hope it makes a difference:
We know how difficult
#COVID
ー19 will make things for people across our cultural industries over coming weeks. We’re doing our best at
@ace_national
to support you as quickly and effectively as we can. This thread outlines our first steps:
#Covid19
emergency: Arts Council England’s No.1 Priority for the next three months is to support people who work in the arts, museums and libraries. We want as strong a sector as possible as we come out the other side of this crisis. THREAD 👇
Why Art & Design, Dance, Drama and Music - and learning how to create rather than only to consume what others have created - should be core components of every child’s education, not just those with an economic or geographical advantage. New
@tes
article:
We’ve just announced a new
@ace_national
Emergency Response Package for the
#Covid19
crisis: £160 million of investment for people and organisations in the cultural sector. Supporting you the best we can during this crisis remains our No.1 Priority:
Alongside the whole
@ace_national
team, looking forward to working with new
@DCMS
Secretary of State
@lisanandy
to champion benefits of public investment in artists, arts organisations, museums & libraries on lives of people in villages, towns & cities across England
#LetsCreate
On behalf of the
@ace_national
team, I want to take a moment to wish a happy and healthy Christmas to all the creative people and cultural organisations we work with. We’ve done our very best to do everything we can to support you in 2020. We’ll be here to do the same in 2021.
New longitudinal neuroscience research from Holland shows that music lessons significantly improve primary school children’s cognitive skills and academic performance and visual arts lessons significantly improve children’s visual and spatial memory:
Today is my 5th birthday at
@ace_national
- just reflecting on how privileged I am to work alongside a brilliant team across the country who are dedicated to doing their very best to support artists, arts organisations, museums and libraries every day - and especially right now.
We closed our
@ace_national
offices today because we want to do our best to keep our team safe and well. We’ll all still be working from home though. We’ll continue to be in full contact with people & organisations across the arts, museums & libraries. You’re still our priority.
A world without creativity would see no original ideas; no new inventions or advances in science or medicine; no new products or services; no new music or art; no solutions to new problems. That’s why
#CreativityMatters
- new book out now from
@eandtbooks
Graduated today from
@MiddlesexUni
with DProf on the role of the outsider as an agent for change. Big thanks to supervisor Dr Dave Adams, to course leader Dr Kate Maguire and to advisor
@dwyer_benjamin
and also to examiners
@johnhabron
Dr Mark Loon and Dr Brian Sutton
#MDXgrad19
We’re reopening
@ace_national
#NationalLottery
Project Grants for individuals and organisations on July 22nd. Thanks to
#NationalLottery
players who buy the tickets that raise the money that enables us to make this investment in artists, arts organisations, museums and libraries.
Today, we’re publishing
#LetsCreate
- our brand new
@ace_national
strategy for arts, museums and libraries in villages, towns and cities across England from 2020 to 2030. Thank you to everyone across the country who has helped us to bring it to life.
Good news: £85 million investment for 2020-21 announced by
@educationgovuk
minister
@NickGibbUK
for Music Education Hubs and a range of cultural education programmes - all doing important job of bringing creativity and culture into young people’s lives: .
It’s one year ago today that the
@ace_national
team left our offices and began working from home. Since then, we’ve done our best to do everything we can to support creative people and organisations right across England. We’ll be here to carry on doing the same in the year ahead.
We’ve published a new set of
@ace_national
#CultureChange
guides on how to find, grow, recruit and support diverse talent; how to develop diverse leadership and create diverse boards; and how to collect and use diversity data:
#CreativeCase
We’ve published new
@ace_national
research today showing how public investment in cultural buildings such as theatres, music venues, galleries, museums and libraries has a sustained positive impact on High Streets and town centres across England.
#HereForCulture
We’re highlighting the value cultural organisations bring to high streets across the country - and 75% of cultural buildings are within a five minute walk from a high street! Get the story here:
#HereForCulture
Kindness in a time of crisis: at the end of a difficult week, I’ve written a new
@ace_national
blog about the creativity and compassion shown in the past few days by the people and organisations who work in the arts, museums and libraries across England:
Hull’s year as
#UKCityofCulture2017
has been a rip-roaring, awe-inspiring, life-enhancing success. My new blog reflects on
#ACEsupported
@2017Hull
and the way in which sustained, strategic investment in arts & culture changes lives & places for the better:
Our
@ace_national
chair Sir Nicholas Serota has been talking to
@guardian
about investment in artists, arts organisations, museums and libraries in England in the 2020s as we get set to publish our new strategy for the next ten years:
After the initial
#COVID
ー19 response phase: the more complex question of what comes next for artists, arts organisations, museums & libraries. My new blog today about how
@ace_national
is planning to support the long-term recovery of creativity & culture:
Over the coming weeks, we will do our best at
@ace_national
to support people and organisations working in the arts, museums and libraries. We know how difficult
#COVID
ー19 will make things. We’ll try to be as quick and effective as we can be. This thread has more details:
#Covid19
emergency: Arts Council England’s No.1 Priority for the next three months is to support people who work in the arts, museums and libraries. We want as strong a sector as possible as we come out the other side of this crisis. THREAD 👇
On behalf of the
@ace_national
team, I want to take a moment to wish a happy and healthy Christmas to all the creative people and cultural organisations we work with. We’ve done our very best to do everything we can to support you in 2021. We’ll be here to do the same in 2022.
NEW: We’ve invested £64.8million of
@ace_national
#COVID19
Emergency Response Funds in 7,484 individuals and 2,182 independent organisations plus a further £4million in benevolent funds thanks to the
#NationalLottery
and
@DCMS
- my new blog explains more:
Today we’ve published a refreshed set of
@ace_national
guides for school governors on delivering best practice in the arts, culture and creativity underlining the importance of high quality art and design, dance, drama and music in every child’s education:
Terrible mindless destruction at the Spellow Hub Library. Only recently reopened after major investment from
@LCRMayor
. Libraries are places of safety, knowledge, learning & opportunity. Thoughts with
@Liverpoollib
team who do so much for their communities
Our
@ace_national
chair Sir Nicholas Serota has written this column for the
@guardian
on how public investment in artists, arts organisations, museums and libraries can lead the revival of Brtlitain’s towns:
#creativitymatters
We’ll be doing everything we can at
@ace_national
to share information with the people and organisations working in the arts, museums and libraries over the next few difficult months. Supporting you is our No.1 priority. We sent out this update on
#COVID19
this evening:
Update on
#Covid19
from Arts Council England, as of 8pm Monday 16 March 2020: a note to our funded organisations, individuals and the wider cultural sector
Off to the printers today: my new book ‘The Arts Dividend Revisited’. It shows how public investment in artists, arts organisations, museums and libraries helps people lead happier, better lives in villages, towns and cities across England. Out Aug 6th:
NEW: Arts Minister Lord Parkinson announces £48 million
@DCMS
investment delivered by
@ace_national
to safeguard our critical cultural heritage with new funding for more than than 60 galleries, museums, libraries and cultural venues right across England:
Why I’m adopting a realist-optimist stance as we enter the next phase of reacting to
#COVID19
challenges working in partnership with artists, arts organisations, museums and libraries in villages, towns and cities across England. My new
@ace_national
blog:
First copy of my new book
#TheArtsDividendRevisited
has arrived. Published by
@eandtbooks
on Aug 6th, it shows how public investment in artists, arts organisations, museums and libraries helps to create happier lives for people in villages, towns and cities across England.
“The end of the beginning”: I’ve written a new
@ace_national
blog today discussing what comes next for artists, arts organisations, museums and libraries in England, as we emerge from the initial shock of the
#COVID
ー19 emergency and look to the future:
Arts and culture delivers £10.8 billion benefit to the UK economy. New
@ace_national
report shows why public investment in artists, arts organisations, museums and libraries is increasingly valuable in towns & cities across England:
Our
@ace_national
#NationalLottery
Project Grants reopens for applications at midday today. More details of what’s new in the thread below and in the full guidance on our website.
#LetsCreate
📢 Individual artists! Community and cultural organisations! Museums and Libraries!
#NationalLottery
Project Grants reopens on 22 July. Apply for funding for arts, museums and libraries projects that benefit the public in England. Read our new guidance:
If you’ve an idea for a new video, audio or interactive media project, then applications are now open for
#CultureinQuarantine
- a new commissioning strand launched by
@bbcarts
and
@ace_national
The deadline is 5pm on 8 April. Find out more
@thespacearts
:
NEW TODAY: £33 million
@ace_national
#COVID19
Emergency Response Funding for 196 much-loved cultural organisations in villages, towns and cities across the country. Each of these National Portfolio Organisations is a key part of England’s cultural ecology:
Our
@ace_national
Chair Sir Nicholas Serota is joining a new taskforce announced today by
@DCMS
Secretary of State
@OliverDowden
aimed at helping to get the country’s recreation and leisure sector up and running again:
Research shows that engagement with the arts can improve mental health, and provide opportunities to boost social connections and prevent isolation. My column for today’s
@Independent
on why creativity and culture give us reasons to feel optimistic:
Libraries have a huge physical role as cultural hubs in their communities. They’ve got a really important digital role too. So at
@ace_national
we’re investing £151k extra across England’s 151 library services to buy new ebooks and e-audiobooks, which are in big demand right now.
Our
@ace_national
chair Nick Serota in
@today
’s
@ObserverUK
on arts investment for our youngest children, a cultural entitlement for all young people, the role of culture in communities and on the world stage, and protecting artistic freedom
#LetsCreate
I always love the chance to go for a walk along Crosby Beach among Sir Antony Gormley’s “Another Place” statues. This was yesterday evening. Still one of my favourite pieces of public art.
New
@ace_national
report shows why public investment in artists, arts organisations, museums and libraries is so vital to our country. The arts and culture sector now benefits the UK economy to the tune of £10.8 billion each year:
Excellent news from
@DCMS
Secretary of State
@OliverDowden
confirming
@RishiSunak
will announce £400m new investment for cultural organisations as they reopen. At
@ace_national
we’re standing by to continue to work with
@DCMS
to invest this money to support culture across England
NEWS: Can confirm tmw's
#Budget
will include £400m for the arts on top of £1.5bn already announced
It's a relief we can look ahead now so this funding is not just about survival, but planning & preparing for reopening of theatres, galleries and gigs
We recognise the importance of leadership in arts and culture. That’s why we’re launching Transforming Leadership, a £6 million
@ace_national
fund investing in leadership development across across arts, museums and libraries. More details here:
Artists, arts organisations, museums and libraries change people and places for the better, with the power to help everyone enjoy happier lives in villages, towns and cities across England. My book argues it’s public investment that makes the difference:
We’re continuing to work with
@DCMS
to help them get as much evidence as possible to effectively respond to the
#COVID19
crisis. Please do complete our short
@ace_national
survey for cultural freelancers and organisations so we can help them support you:
We’ve just published our new
@ace_national
draft strategy for the arts, museums and libraries in England between 2020 and 2030. We’re keen to hear what you think and will be opening our online consultation for 12 weeks from next Monday:
#anACEfuture
Excellent
@thetimes
column today by
@aliceTTimes
on the need for young people from all backgrounds to study cultural education subjects such as art and design, dance, drama and music to ensure they are equipped with the skills required in the 21st century:
Today, we welcome 985 organisations to our new
@ace_national
#LetsCreate
National Portfolio - including 275 joining for the first time. These arts organisations, museums and libraries change lives for the better in villages, towns and cities across England every day. More here:
#LetsCreate
!
This April, 985 fantastic arts organisations, libraries and museums start their journey together, making sure even more people across England have access to creativity and culture - as part of our National Portfolio.
But what does this mean? 👇
Delighted that
@TheTonyaNelson
will be joining us early in 2019 from
@ucl
where she is currently Director of Museums and Cultural Programmes. Tonya will be our brand new
@ace_national
Director of Arts Technology and Innovation.
#CultureIsDigital
Public investment in arts and culture plays a key role generating economic returns across the creative industries and beyond.
Read our new
@ace_national
and
@Creative_Fed
report , 'Public Investment,
#PublicGain
' which is published today:
…
NEW TODAY:
@ace_national
#CreativityExchange
- an online community for teachers and creative practitioners to help encourage teaching for creativity across the curriculum - a place for creative inspiration and for sharing innovative practice in education:
Out now: my new book
#TheArtsDividendRevisited
published by
@eandtbooks
- it shows how public investment in artists, arts organisations, museums and libraries helps to create happier lives for people in villages, towns and cities across England.
Today, we’ve published our
@ace_national
#LetsCreate
delivery plan. My new blog on why it’s a chance to help shape a more open, inclusive and resilient sector, and for the arts, museums and libraries to play their part in remaking a better, happier world:
#CreativityExchange
: a new
@ace_national
space for school leaders, teachers, those working in cultural organisations, scientists, researchers and parents to share ideas on how to teach for creativity, growing young people’s creativity in and out of school:
NEW BLOG: as we move into a new phase of response to the
#COVID
ー19 crisis, I discuss what comes next for artists, arts organisations, museums and libraries. And how
@ace_national
is planning to support the longer-term recovery of creativity and culture:
We’ve just published new
@ace_national
place-shaping research showing how public investment in artists, arts orgs, museums and libraries (1) promotes wellbeing, (2) makes places attractive to live in, (3) builds communities and (4) supports high streets:
Welcome Sanjeev Jagait -
@ace_national
’s first ever Chief Data Officer. High quality data helps inform the creative and business decisions made by the organisations we invest in. And data shows the value of public investment in artists, arts organisations, museums and libraries.
Delighted that arts and culture in England will continue to benefit from the leadership of Sir Nicholas Serota after announcement today by
@DCMS
Secretary of State
@OliverDowden
that he has appointed him for a second four year term as
@ace_national
chair:
Our
@ace_national
Deputy CEO
@dyer023
and I had an excellent introductory meeting with new
@DCMS
Secretary of State
@NickyMorgan01
this morning in Edinburgh, talking about the importance of arts & culture in villages, towns and cities across England and on the international stage
We’re now open for applications for the first round of our new
@ace_national
Developing Your Creative Practice Fund. We’re investing £14.4 million to help individual creative practitioners develop & achieve a step change in their work. All the info here:
“Teaching the whole child”: new blog from our
@ace_national
Chair, Sir Nicholas Serota, on why the arts should form part of the core in every pupil’s recovery curriculum as we emerge from the
#COVID19
pandemic:
#LetsCreate
Investing public money in arts and culture has the power to benefit everyone in villages, towns and cities across the country. New column for
@standardnews
by our
@ace_national
chair Nick Serota:
We’ve put together this set of answers to the questions we’re most frequently being asked by our
@ace_national
grant recipients about issues arising from the
#COVID19
situation: - We’ll keep this page updated over the coming days.
Talent is everywhere but opportunity is not. Our new
@ace_national
strategy for 2020 to 2030
#LetsCreate
aims to change that in villages, towns and cities right across England. You can download it here:
“Music is the empowering force for children. It is vital that we keep it in our schools. It teaches them to be all round human beings.”
@OfficialALW
tonight accepting his lifetime achievement award at
@classicbrits
at
@RoyalAlbertHall
Some really good news: thrilled that
@TheTonyaNelson
is taking over from Joyce Wilson as our
@ace__london
Area Director this summer. Tonya’s been with
@ace_national
for the past 15 months as our Director of Arts Technology and Innovation. She’ll be brilliant in her new role.